New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1918, Page 5

- the e s = LANSDOWNE URGES DEBATE ON TERMS England’s Leading Pacifist Again Steps Info Limelight Lendon, 10ther upen peacs pros Marquis of I Aug. 1—A ects writfen by the nadowne was resd pporters utterance a conterence of his vestarday. This lates pases no new policy. It consists la of criticism of the Allies theis tailure te state their war aims mor spacifically and them to ta advantage of amy for n Aiseussion of terms. The chief impo Lansdowne's letter is that he is only British statesman of first nk who is listed in his own country and abroad, whether correctly or other- as a pasifist and his words wih sceive the greatest publicity in the suntrtes of the Central here it is insisted they represent powertul portion of Rritish thought Earl! Beauchamp presided over the sonference. and Baron Buckmaster tormer lord chancellor. and a few paeifist members of the lords and ommone attended A sympathetic lstter from Arthur Henderson, the abor leader in the of com- ns, was read Lord Buckmaste urges opportunity ance of Lord the hous: <aid My compiaint is that whenever a easonable suggestion of peace is made on the part of Germany it is ' always rejected in this country on the | Zround that it is insincere. The people uld insist that all made pnblic. 1 aims for which war are not the are continuing it The new Lansdowne letter h apathetically ceived in political general parliamentary is said to be well summarized b} comment of one member of the house of commons: ‘‘The is simply an elongation of Lands downe's previous pronouncement, b it is an elongation leading nowhere “Peen Seated Desire for Discussion. his letter the Marquis of Lan downe says he is convinced \here is “a deep seated desire for a further lanation as fo the conditions upon which we are prepared, not to make les the we am uneasy we entered ms for which In but to open a discussion which | might lead to peace. The writer assumes treaties are Mable ta President says Tt is a picture. drawn by of the golden age to which we bidden to look forward. It does however, to these who are in search of a basis for preliminary necotiations with the kind of ground + ork after which they are striv Lord “We are ubaut tn ffth year of the great liberty, and week afrm a resolve from tha effort until pe secret and re- Iat that revision farring to Wilsen's epeech he master, not seem ng Lansdowne adds commance the struggle we ehall re not to desist ce with honor for next solemn is in sight Meanwhile, with everr month that toll which the war is cost and heavier is being drained of its heavier rasoure purely destructive effort, involves the further tion of its reserves of mutifation of the ef production.” Lord Lansdowne timates placing belligerents at 7,000,000 have been killed 000,000 made prisoner or among the missing and to the decline in the birth rate, which, according to the registrar-general in a recent pa- per. iz costing the beliigerents 12, 500,000 potential lives, of which #50.- 0ne lost to Tngland and hich diminu- and the machinery power further refers to the 0,000,000, of which and 6,- numbered have Walae heen Againet Dichonorahle Peace. than accept a dishonorable peace’ he says, “‘we are all ready to fight on to the bitter end.” He dwells the tragic loss of life and declares | wide- | i be found in the enemy’s readiness to { throw assumption is it | language of | for the at the desire read among peace is enemy nations din “Upon no posaible to other explain the ogs Austrians and Germans who are In a position to speak their minds treely or the constant feelers launched by the Governments of the Central Fowere But are apparently as far as ever from the end, The tide of carnage and destruction continues to flow and carries all before it. From time a ray of reassnableness fllumines gFloom only ta be followed by a relapss into reeriminations and con oversiss, in which each side instead of searching for points of agreement '8 apparently content with dialectic That is it that stand in the way It i3 with no desire to embarrass the frovernment that 1 ask the question but manv of us are sorely perplexed and fesl it our duty to gzive them a ¢hance of affording us some measure of reassurance and enlightenment “Thera ie in the first place, I am canvineed, a seated desire for the condi- we are prepared. not but to open a discus- which might lead to peace Tt Is assumed that such a discus- #ton cannat he commenced without Me measure of 1Zree ment. and stantly b Bacause, deep further explanation as to on which to make peace preliminary leading statesmen con- te ourselves remies have erms, we are fined ours in un- Has it been alt rsfused to define t supposed to have ¢ mistakadle lanzuaze really unmista’ e? No one will sug- gest that a discussion is impossible antil each side has obtained the assent »f the other to an exhaustive cata- logue of its requirements. but there are evidently certain cardtnal points ich neither sids will treat as open o question. Is it really the casa that Me have deae all that can be expected Powers, | | m speech of i regarded as [ he says, “it is at offers of peace been | letter | | those who are in search of a basis for | preliminary | direction a great provide | duced to impotence i adiustment ity The | spending its energies in | each of | the casualties of the | | to a | which { mentary time to | sincere or ! in which | the moment fc ;own in af us in the wav of 2 Asfinition of such poin Admitzs R in the Conrse. Lord wne admits srmulating that such the Micnitie Tiou Diverse ap po Iy conflicting srests have fo he “Wa we are in 1 1lies econciled,”” he ntinue: must make sure line oniy with with our great 10Ns over: We have to face fems. political, racial and geographi cal, of surpassing intricacy There is temptation vague langna 1ind broad ties, and slic awk but what been interalli nat o but damin prob cne ard qu the nse of and the abinet if e tions, Hes onur onferences imperial tho < no co-ordination of Some of 1e earller versionz of the are obsolete, according to The document time wa Alltes’ note 10, 1917 Russia had since fallen out The secret treaties, the of which so seriously exer public mind in this country,’ tinues, may i ume, be liable to revision in many tant particulars.” Lord Lansdowne reférs to the pre January 5 as being the most authoritative recital of the Aliles’ war aims Though lengthy and slaborate,” points per- in precision are asking whether it the field: whether 21l th comprised in it are in th me plane and whether no conversa- tion can be commenced until the Central Powers have signified their acceptance of whole of them." lied aims the lotte for a long of January zoverning the hut disclosure | ed the he con- regarded as impor- some haps inevitably wanting The people 1l holds mands Wilson's Mount Vernon Speech. hat there had been other | ments he write remarkable of on's Fourth able both fo omits. i nce from the prime minister wholeheartedly Declarin striking sta “The most President Wi peech—remar antains end it -ives additional impo fact that our own immediateiv and ed it a picrure, of the golden bidden to look however, drawn by a sreat age to which forward. It to provide we are does not seem negotiations with the kind of groundwork after which they are striving “If Germany readiness to Wilson'’s would intimate her President advance the right should conform to ctandards a long have been made in The speech is, however, | an outline of peace terms, but | a very nobly worded description of | ‘the things for which the associated people of the world are fighting.' “Even if Germany were ready to combine in the setting up of a tri- bunal for peace and justice. and it could he assumed that her power for disturbine the peace would be re- | he continued we should still find ourselves at the | beginning and not at the end of an extremely complicated nagotiation., We would still he without reasonable | of the maln territorial | nNecessary, according to stabil- not Aifficulties Mr. Balfour, for international When ister announces have peace cept President therefore, the prime that the Kaiser can | tomorrow if he will aec- Wilson's conditions he surely overstates his case. Nor does he greatly advance it.by intimating for the benefit of those Germans who are continually warned that we are bent upon their utter destruction that ‘the god of brute force must this time and forever be broken and burnt in its own furnace.'" Attack min. | on Gen. Smuts. Gen length Smuts’ Glasgow Lord Quoting speech at Lansdowne comments: “Humbler persons for Gen have been held to execration language of this kind has given the knockout blow, and up using Smuts grace to the points the way true conception of that vietory all of us regard as indispen able, a victory aiming not only at mo- security under which P ident Wilson's ideals can eventually be realized “The test of coup de its completeness will | aside the doctrines of extreme militarism and accept the terms which he would not have been al- lowed to look at when he set out upon his desperate enterprize.” Lansdowne sald that he prepared to affirm that the stage had seen reached where there was a prospect of a preliminary agreement on essential points of profitable considerations “But,” he ant_indications nay present th the ad “there that casions mselves in the near future. be prepared to meet them reasonable apirit lat n& give our adversries the chance of showing whether thei are not. the argument the Allfes successes in are such oc abun Let ‘us and in a overtures On the moment achieving the field is not hinting at peace, he 2ce of the world-wide | has brought no inopportune for that are glorions says. “In the calamities the v moment that can considering reas proposals. 1f one moment is more opportune than 2nother is the moment when events have shown that whatever the feeling which inspires it it is not one of doubt ag to our ability to hold our fthis deadly struggle if we forced to continue it.” Lord Lansdowne’s letter concludes ‘Tf one moment is more opportune than another it is the moment when events have shown that, whatever he the feeling which inspires us, it is not of doubt as to our ability to hold our own In this deadly strug- gle if we are forced to continue it." onable be one Six young women employed at the local telephone exchange have al- ready signed applications for over- seas work as telephone operators for the government. They will bs given the regulation examinations after | which thosge who pass will he given an oppertunity to g0 ACross. | framed { means | of $20 i rates written into the last | eise tax on owners of automadbiles | this report | recommend rates and the proper taxes | lieu of | | the arastic | New | trouble from | worked TAUTOMOBILE T AND TAX ON GAS Owners and Mannfacturers fo Confribute More to War Washington Aug owners are to contribute a share toward winnlug the T first consumption taxes 1o be writt 18 new renue were vesterday by the and committee and affect both the owners and users of motor cars Motor owners will have to pay a tax ranging up from $10, according to the list addition a tax on original retail price of their ma- chines. In gasolene of two cents a gallon was decided upon. Taxes on motor owners are ex- pected to annually sumption between cach produce about The tax on gasolene is counted $40,000,000 con and vear. The tax favored by th the committer to be imposed on mobile owners as it was writen the new law today as follows On machines whose retail list was less than $500-—$10 Between $500 and $750- Between 0 and $1,000 0 Between $1,000 and $1,500—3$30 Between $1.500 and $2,000—$§40 Between §2,000 and $2.500—350 Between $2,500 and $3,000 360 On $500 additional in the cost of the machine over $3,000 an additional tax s imposed rates are exactly majority of 1to into rvice The double the revenue bill by the Finance Committee Thjs tax wasstricken from the bill be fore it law, The tax gas olene was adopted without much de bate. #hough the committee made a dif- ferentiation in favor of motor trucks in imposing & lower rate of tax manufacturers of motor tr than on manufacturers of passenger cars the committee took the that trubks were quite as destructive to roads and that the owners trucks should bear the same burden as the owners of cars used for merely senger purposes and should pay tax for the d The commlittee also cided to levy a tax on motor 5 per cent. This price will be levied on the manufacturer or producer Owners of motorcvcles although will pay the tax in buying motor evel for Senate hecame on on view pas- the tentatively de owning them imposed on them, as in the case of autemobile owners Chairman Kitchin explained the automobile tax is in effect an that this tax does not apply to motor- cyeles . Sentiment in the committee plainly in favor of imposing the tax on automobile owners and little ab jection was raised. The great maijcr ity of automobile owners thern for their read and therefore the of automobiles should be taxed ing an autemobile, the committes be- leves, Is clearly a luxury. Evidently owning a motor trucik is own own ple general clas B be a luxury, too, because no variation | of the tax in favor of trucks was con- sidered The more gasolens was adonted ome of the com tax on unwillingly mittee believed this tax to necessary imposition and on a great many husiness men al ready taxed to the limit. but, faced with the enormous shortages in the tax revenue, the treasury has asked for, these members finally were won over Th be an a hardship committee is still fighting shy of tackling the suggested iuxury taxes sent up by the Treasury Deps It was the purpose of the who mittee to avoid the use of sub-com mittees in handling the tax bill this time, but th o was from today when Representative TIull (Tennessee), Helvering, (Mi and Moore (Pensylvania), were ap pointed a sub-committee to consider the schedule of luxury taxes the Ways and the ment. sub-committee to ba wriften into the Dill in rates urged by the Treas ry In exvlaining the work of the Wa and Committee today, Chair- man confirmed the explana tion tn The Sun of the use les tax in tax rat Means Kitchen published ness of imposing a war addition to the exe s already asreed 1 < profits on izures NO REST—NO PEACE There's the no peace and one who auffer little rest for from a bad back tressir diorders. 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